Shock-loader.



No. 801,235. PATENTED OCT. 10, 1905.

D.'J. GREEN. SHOGK LOADER.

APPLIOATION FILED APB. 25,1904.

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SHOCK-LOADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed April 25, 1904. Serial No. 204,715.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID J. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Bloom township, in'the county of Nobles and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shock-Loaders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shock-loaders; and it consists in the features of construction and combination hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of my improved shock-loader. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line m of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a rear View of the upper part of the machine, and Fig. 5 is a detail of the supporting-guides for the rakes.

In the drawings, A represents the frame of the machine,supported at the rear upon wheels 2. Pivotally supporting the forward end of the frame A is a gatherer truck or frame B, having a forwardly-projecting gathering-fork 14 and supported upon wheels 3, said wheels having swivel-bearing in the cross-bar 4 of the gatherer-truck. This cross-bar is journaled in bearings 5, carried by the lower ends of the side bars 6 of the upwardly and rearwardly extending carrier 7. The truck-frame B extends rearwardly from the cross-bar 4 underneath the forward part of the frame of the shock-loader and is connected at its rear end by an eyebolt 8 with the forwardly-projecting end 9 of the lever 10, which has fulcrum-support 11 on the cross-bar 12, secured on the under side of the shock-loader frame, and is adapted to be operated by the driver of the machine. By throwing the lever forwardly or rearwardly the gatherer-fra me will be turned in its supporting-brackets 5 to raise or lower the forward end of the fork.

Pivotally supported upon the ends of the cross-bar 4 are forwardly-extending tongues 13, each of which is also connected with the cross-bar by a link 15. Carried by the gatherer-frame B at the rear of its supportingbar 4 is a crossbeam 16. Slidable in guides 17 upon the rear of this cross-beam is a rod 18, carrying at its ends chains 19, which run over pulleys 20 upon the upper sides of the ends of the cross-beam l6 and are connected with the swingletrees 21.

The rearwardly-extending lifting-conveyer 7 runs over sprocket-wheels 23 and 24, journaled in the upper and lower ends, respectively, of the side bars 6. To guide the shocks to the conveyer, I provide upon opposite sides of the gatherer-frame guides consisting of uprights 25, secured to the end of the crossbar4 and provided with forwardly-extending and outwardly-turned fingers 26. The conveyer is operated, through the medium of meshing gears 47 and 48, by a chain 27 passing over sprocket-wheels 28 at its upper end and 29 upon one of the rear side wheels. At the rear end of the lifting-conveyer 7 and running over sprocket-wheels 30 and 31 is a transversely-arranged delivery-conveyer 32, extending across the end of the lifting-conveyer and beyond one side thereof in position to receive the shocks from the lifting-conveyer and carry them to a wagon or other suitable receptacle (not shown) at the side of the'machine. The sprocket-wheels 30 are driven from the rear wheels 2 through the medium of the chain 27, sprocket-wheels 33, and gears 34.

lVorking in connection with the lifting-conveyer are Walking-rakes 35, having clownwardly-projec-ting double prongs 36, adapted to rake the shocks toward the lifting-conveyer. These rakes are pivotally supported upon and operated by a crank 37, journaled in the forward ends of arms 38, which extend forwardly and upwardly beyond the liftingconveyer. These arms have pivotal support 39 at their rear ends on the sides of the frame and are free to vibrate or swing upon their pivot between the lower standards 40, upon which they normally rest, and the upper standards 41, said standards constituting stops to limit the movement of the arms. By this arrangement the rakes are supported elastic ally, as it were, so that they will yield when they strike on top of a corn-shock or heavy grain-shock to prevent breakage and drop again to normal position when the obstacle is passed. The crank 37 is operated from one of the rear wheels 2 by a chain 42 passing .over sprocket-wheels 43 at one end of the crank and 44 upon the rear wheel. The rear ends of the rakes are loosely supported in guide openings or slots 45 in a cross-bar 46, supported above the lifting-conveyer by the standards 41. This not only allows the rakes to slide easily back and forth in the slots, but permits some freedom of lateral and angular play which relieves them from strain in case of lateral or other angular pressure.

l/Vhen the machine is drawn forward, the shocks are gathered up by the gatherer-fork and guided by the guides 15 to the liftingconveyer, to which they are pulled by the eccentrically working rakes. The liftingconveyer carries the shocks to the transverse discharge-conveyer 32, which carries themat an angle with the lifting-conveyer to a wagon or other receptacle (not shown) at the side of the machine. This arrangement of conveyers permits the delivery of shocks into a wagon driven along at the side of the shockloader.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a shock-loader of the class described, the combination, with a frame supported upon wheels at its rear end and a conveyer extend in g upwardly and rearwardly from the forward part of the frame, of a wheeled truck supporting the forward end of said frame, the supporting cross-bar of said truck being journaled in the lower ends of said conveyer, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a shock-loader of the class described, the combination, with a frame supported upon wheels at its rear end and a conveyer extending upwardly and rearwardly from the forward part of the frame, of a wheeled truck supporting the forward end of said frame, the supporting cross-bar of said truck beingjournaled in the lower ends of said conveyer, and forwardly outwardly directed guides secured to said bar.

3. In a shock-loader of the class described, the combination with the frame supported upon wheels at its rear end and a conveyer extending upwardly and rearwardly from the forward part of the frame, of a truck having pivotal support in the lower ends of said. conveyer and forming a support for the front end of the frame, and a lever fulcrumed upon the side of said frame and provided with a forwardly-extending lower end having pivotal connection with the rear end of said truck, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a shock-loader of the class described the combination, with a wheel supported frame and a gatherer, of a lifting-conveyer extending upwardly and rearwardly from the gatherer, arms pivotally supported at one end upon the frame and extending upwardly and forwardly above and beyond the conveyer, a crank journaled in the outer ends of the arms, walking-rakes pivotally mounted upon the crank, and stops carried by the frame in position to support thc arms with the crank and rakes carried'thereby in normally operative position.

5. In a shock-loader of the class described the combination, with a wheel supported frame and a gatherer carried thereby, of a lifting-conveyer extending upwardly and rearwardly from the gatherer, pivotally supported arms extending upwardly and forwardly beyond the conveyor, stops above and below the arms to limit their movement, a crank journaled in the arms, and walking-rakes pivotally mounted on the crank in position to rake shocks along the gatherer toward the conveyer.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

1 DAVID J. GREEN. Witnesses:

S. S. SMITH, MILTON S. SMITH. 

